From Stonehenge to Samarkand : an anthology of archaeological travel writing /
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| Author / Creator: | Fagan, Brian M. |
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2006. |
| Description: | xxvi, 291 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6015048 |
Table of Contents:
- Maps and Timeline
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Beginnings
- The Desolation of Babylon
- Herodotus at the Pyramids
- The Colossi of Memnon
- Chapter 2. The Antiquarians
- "The Backward-looking Curiosity"
- William Camden and Britannia
- John Aubrey and Edward Llwyd
- William Stukeley and Stonehenge
- Chapter 3. The Grand Tour
- An Excursion to Acquire Taste
- The Attractions of Naples
- The Rome of the Grand Tour
- Pompeii and Herculaneum
- Wastrels and "Macaronis"
- Chapter 4. Greece Bespoiled
- The Parthenon and Eleusis
- Charles Cockerell and Friends at Aphaia
- Chapter 5. Pharaohs and Pyramids
- Napoleon's Donkeys
- Champollion Visits the Nile
- The First Tourists
- "Far more beautiful than I had expected"
- Chapter 6. From Babylon to Persepolis
- Karsten Niebuhr at Persepolis
- Claudius James Rich at Babylon and Birs Nimrod
- Sir Robert Ker Porter Sees Desolation
- Rich at Persepolis
- Chapter 7. Palmyra and Petra
- First Visitors to Palmyra
- Baalbek
- Inaccessible Petra
- Chapter 8. Tourists Along the Nile
- Thomas Cook and Mark Twain
- "A boating trip interspersed with ruins"
- A Thousand Miles up the Nile
- Chpater 9. Maya and Inca
- The Almost-forgotten Maya
- John Lloyd Stephens Reveals the Maya
- Ephraim Squier and Inca Civilization
- Hiram Bingham at Machu Picchu
- Chapter 10. The World of the Pueblos
- Chaco Canyon
- William Henry Jackson and the Pueblos
- Frank Cushing, "1st War Chief of the Zuni, U.S. Assistant Ethnologist"
- Early Tourists
- Chapter 11. To Desert and Steppe
- Sven Hedin, Explorer and Adventurer
- Sir Aurel Stein and the Caves of a Thousand Buddhas
- Chapter 12. Individualists
- Maillart and Fleming
- Byron in Oxiana
- Chapter 13. Travel as Commodity
- Paul Theroux Along the Nile
- Crowds, Crowds ...
- Solitude on the Great Wall
- Tom Bissell in Central Asia
- Obsessed with the Never-lost Inca
- Notes
- Guide to Further Reading
- Acknowledgments
- Credits
- Index
